Alarming water pollution is toxic to the aquatic ecosystem leading to a sharp decline in
species diversity. Diatoms have great potency to survive in contaminated water bodies …

Climate change poses a considerable threat to the biodiversity of high altitude ecosystems
worldwide, including cold‐water river systems that are responding rapidly to a shrinking …

This paper reviews and explores trends and patterns in algal research in Nepal. Due to its
potential uses in various industries, algal exploration in Nepal has gained significant interest …

During the first study of the diverse diatom assemblages in Rara Lake, the largest lake in
Nepal, 11 species of Gomphonema, belonging to six morphological groups, and …

We describe Adlafia kociolekii sp. nov. from aerial habitats in Sikkim, India, a part of the
Eastern Himalayas. The species is described based on light and scanning electron …

A new species of Pinnularia is described from a stream from Sikkim, India, falls under
Eastern Himalayas biodiversity hotspot. Features that help make this species distinctive …

Cold environments are considered extreme biomes and historically thought to be barren and
unproductive. However, investigations show that some of the coldest regions in the world …

 Abstract Lake Qinghai is an ancient brackish water lake in which several endemic diatom
species have been discovered. In this study, a species of Diatoma is observed under light …

A new freshwater diatom species, Gomphonema adhikarii sp. nov., is described from a small
road–side pool from the alpine region of Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalayas, India …

This review briefly highlights findings from a survey of 2017 literature on substratum‐
associated microbiota from a variety of aquatic environments, but primarily freshwaters …